The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-12-02
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come ashore. The sailor. always
ready to be entertained, took the in
FAINT, and the woman took the mans
arm and walked away.
AT the First Presbyterian Church at
Washington, Pa, or Sunday evening.
the lady principal of the female semin-
airy refused to bring her pupils out OF
the church until a policeman was Sc
cured to drive away a crowd of young
men who were loafng in the church
yard.
-Glassblowers' cheeks become thin
and lose their elasticity by the contin-
ued blowing. They hang down like
inverted pockets, and grow useless.
It is a matter of record, it is said, that
both here and in Europe glass work
ers have k&own holes through their
cheeks.
The London Field tells of a cat
that got nailed in under the floor,
where she was fourteen days before re-
leased, aud had three kittens. The
kittens were well nourished, IN good
condition, with their eyes open. The
cat herself was in a state of extreme
emaciation.
Charles Burdick, of Brookfeld,
Conn, has a very intelligent pig. She
follows him like a dog, goes after the
cows, brings them to the barnyard,
knows her name and answers to it, and
does many tricks. Her excessive timid-
ity alone prevents her from being pub
licly exhibited.
The most novel complaint of impure
milk reported is that of the London
boy boarded out under the poor-law
regulation, who reported that the milk
given him of town, instead of being
taken out of clean tins. had been
squeezed out of nasty cow, and he
''seed 'em adding it."
The final extinction of the seal
otter at the Aleutian islands, on the
Pacific coast, seems certain. The Rus
slams made such havoc among them
that at the time Alaska was sold to the
United States only four or five hundred
a year were taken, and they are grow
ing scarcer and scarcer.
An increase in the demand for
mica has resulted from it's use for
electrical purposes, and special ma
chinery has been devised for getting
out the mineral. Electricians usually
select the whitest kinds, some colored
micas having so mach iron that their
insulating property is affected. d.-Arkan-
SG30 TFGUeler.
"A clock has been invented and is
coming into use in Europe which is
warranted by its manufacturers to run
for five years without either winding or
regulation. The Belgian Government
placed one in a railway station in 1881,
sealed with the Government seal, and
it has kept perfect time ever since
Christian Union.
Grabs and other inferior forms of
animal life have often been observed to
part with portions of their bodies or
members to avoid being captured as
prey. Some have considered this a
voluntary action of self-mutilation, bur
careful observations tend rather to
prove that it is merely the result Of re-
flex actiOn.-Foote' Health Monthly.
"A prominent business man OF
South Norwalk, Conn, apparently per
fectly sane on all subjects but one, hai
recently decided that October is the
month when strawberries should be 81
their best. So he walks the streets,
asking each friend that he meets foI
strawberries, and is considerably an.
noyed that he can't get what he wants.
Mrs. Edwards, of Walterboro, s.
c., caught her husband playing draw
poker and cowhided Mr.. Bellinger,
who, she thought, had led her husband
astray. The next day Bellinger cow
hided Edwards; and then they both
started to find and cowhide the man
who had told Mrs. Edwards where the
game was played. The third mans 8
father heard of it and gave his son
warning, and thus prevented the third
whipping.
Death Valley, Nev., is to be turned
into an ostrich ranch. A Mexican has
fourteen well-grown chicks that he
hatched out there at his little ranch
from eggs brought from the neighbor-
hood of Los Angeles. The eggs were
buried in the hot sand, and of nights
the ground was covered with blankets
to retain the heat it absorbed during
the day. The ranch is about two hun
dred and twenty feet below the level Of
the a--Bost01l Budget.
Recognizing the necessity Of carry
ing out target practice at night, the
Admiralty have directed that once in
each year, wherever practicable, sea-
men are to be drilled after dark with
quick-fring and machine guns. Dur
ing the firing the ships are to be under
steam at not less than from six to eight
knots an hour, and special targets are
to be used and anchored If possible,
precautions being taken to prevent ac-
cidents to boats and shipping.
Opinion.
"A Maine physician says that one
| day he saw big crane standing on a
/ log that fioated near the shore Of the
Kenuebec river. The crane had cap
tured a large bug. which he dropped
/ into the stream. 50 that it hoated down
past him, and then grabbed it and
again repeated the performance. lie
/ kept this up for nearly half an hour,
and then n pickerel darted mp from be
/ low after the bug. This was just what
/ the bird had been waiting for. and the
next moment the fish was down, his
/ throat. and be was winging his way
slowly up stream
One Of the ''cattle kings oi
America, now staying in England. es-
Inmates that I'VE million cattle have
perished from starvation during the
f last twelve months. Frost and snow
f in winter and drought in summer were
f the immediate causes Of the fatality
I but the losses would have been com
paratively small Il it bad not been for
the overstocking u the ranges As 81